Ordinance No. 72•
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE ORDERING THE L-1UNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE
HELD ON THE 4TH DAY OF APRIL, 1950, FOR THE PURPOSE
OF ELECTING THREE (3) COUNCIDAEN FROM THE RESPECTIVE
DISTRICTS NO. 1, 4 AND 5; PROVIDING FOR ELECTION
OFFICERS, DESIGNATING THE PLACES AND YANWER OF HOLD-
ING SAID ELECTION, PRESCRIBING THE HOURS AND PROVID-
ING FOR THE POSTING AND PUBLICATION OF NOTICE.
PURSUANT to Section 12 of Article II, of the Charter of the City of Baytown,
providing for the manner of election and the term of office of the members of the
City Council of the City of Baytown:
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOW -N:
SECTION 1: THAT the regular municipal election of the City of Baytown prescribed
in said section of the Charter of the City of Baytown shall be held between the hours
of seven o'clock a.m. and seven o'1clock p.m. on the fourth day of April, A. D., 1950,
in said City for the purpose of electing the following members of the City Council:
One Councilman from District No. 1; One Councilman from District No. 4; and One Council-
man from District No. 5.
SECTION 2: THAT said City is hereby divided into election precincts and their
polling places will be and election officials shall be, for the purposes of this elec-
tion, as follows:
Precinct No. Polling Place
No. 99 Franta's Automobile Agency
No. 100 Wilkenfeld's Furniture Co.
No. 101 City Hall
• No. 102 Fire Station No. 2
Officials
Henry
Cathriner
Judge
and Presiding Officer
Dl's.
C. J. Bailey
Assistant Judge
Mrs.
Sam Herbert
Assistant Judge
Mrs.
C. J. Parsley
Judge
and Presiding Officer
Mrs.
B. Nettles
ssistant Judge
Mrs.
Jessie Lunsford
Assistant Judge
Yrs.
J. W. Riggs
Judge
and Presiding Officer
Mrs.
E. E. Slagle
Assistant Judge
Mrs.
Frank Moore
Assistant Judge
Rev.
I%yne McCleskey
Judge
and Presiding Officer
M. V.
BerEX
Assistant
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VWs.
Knox.hunting
Assistant Judge
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Precinct No.
Polling Place Officials
No. 119 San J�cint o Elementary School J. Rodger Read
Judge and siding Officer
Charlie Jones
Assistant Judge
Mrs. W. H. Platt
Assistant Judge
SECTION 3: THAT this election shall be held in accordance with and shall be
governed by the election lams of the State of Texas. In all city elections the mayor,
city clerk,or the governing body shall do and perform each act in other elections re-
quired to be done and performed respectively by the county judge, the county clerk, or
the commissioners'-court. The notice or proclamation of this and all other city elec-
tions shall be issued and posted at the polling places not later than 30 days before
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the date of said election.
SECTION 4: THAT one councilman shall be elected from each of the respective
Districts No. 1, 4 and 5 of the City of Baytown by a majority vote of the city at
large; that said districts are and shall be as established, defined, and outlined in
the report of the commission appointed by the City Council for the purpose of divid-
ing the City of Baytown into six districts of approximately equal population, the
report of said commission being dated the 5th day of February, A. D., 1948, and adopted
and approved by the City Council of the City of Baytown on the 5th day of February,
1918; and as said report was amended on February :., 1950. Each councilman so elected
shall be a bona fide resident of the district represented by him; Districts 2,'3 and
6 as established and defined in the aforementioned report of said commission are re-
presented by three holdover councilmen and none shall be elected in this election
from these three districts. There shall be no election for Mayor until the year 1951
under the Charter of the City. Said three councilmen to be elected at this election
shall hold office for a period of two years.
SECTION 5: THAT the qualifications of the members of the City Council shall be
as follovrs: The mayor and each of the six councilmen shall be citizens of the United
States of America and a qualified voter of the State of Texas; shall have resided for
at least two years next preceding the election within the corporate limits of Baytown;
shall be a bona fide owner of real estate within the corporate limits of Baytown; and
shall not be in arrears in the payments of any taxes or. other liability due the city.
SECTION 6: THAT any eligible and qualified person may have his name printed
upon the official ballot as an independent candidate for the office of councilman from
his respective district by filing his sworn application with °the mayor at least 30
days prior to the date of this election. The application shall state the specific
office or place being sought by the applicant and that the applicant is eligible and
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qualified under the laws of the State of Texas to become a candidate for and hold the
® office being sought, if elected.
SECTION 7: (a) The form of the sworn application shall be substantially as
follows:
"To the Mayor of the City of Baytown, Texas, Greetings:
hereby make application to
have my name printed on the official ballot as an independent
candidate for the office of councilman representing District
No. to be voted upon at the city election to be held on
the th day of April, 1950; and I hereby certify that I am quali-
fied to hold such office, if elected.
"State of Texas
County of Harris
It , being duly svrorn, deposes and
says that the statements contained in the foregoing appli-
cation are true.
• Signed
"Subscribed and sworn to before me this the day of ,
1950.
(SEAL)
Notary FEE11c in and for
Harris County, Texas."
(b) Such sworn application may be accompanied with a petition signed by quali-
fied electors, although such petition is not required.
(c) Such sworn application shall be accompanied with an executed copy of the
"Loyalty Affidavit" as required by Article 2978a, Vernon's Texas Statutes, in sub-
stantially the following forms.
't I, , of the City of Baytown, County
of Harris, State of Texas, being a candidate for the cffice
of Councilman, do solemnly swear that I believe in and approve
of our present representative form of government, and if elected,
I will support and defend our present representative form of
government and will resist any effort or movement from any source
which seeks to subvert or destroy the same or any part thereof,
and I will support and defend the Constitution and Laws of the
United States and of the State of Texas.
(Candidate's Signature3
"Sworn to and subscribed before me at Baytown, Texas, this the
day of A. D., 1950-
(SEAL)
Notary Public in and for
Harris County, Texas."
SECTION 8: THAT the form of the ballot for said election shall be substantially
• as follows:
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OFFICIAL BALLOT
. FOR COUNCILMAN DISTRICT N0, 1
FCR COUNCILMAN DISTRICT N0. 4
FCR -COUNCIIffAN DISTRICT N0. 5
SECTION 9: THAT the names of all those who have filed their sworn applications
to have their names printed on the official ballot as candidates shall be posted by
the City Clerk in a conspicuous place at the City Hall for the inspection of the
public for at least ten days before she orders the ballots to be printed. All objec-
tions to the regularity or validity of the application of any person shall be made
within five days after such posting, by written notice filed with the City Clerk
• setting forth the grounds of objections. In case no such objection is filed within
the time prescribed, the regularity or validity of the application of no person whose
name is so posted, shall be thereafter contested. The City Clerk shall preserve in
her office for a period-of two years all applications, notice of- objections and other
related papers.
SECTION 10: THAT any person eligible to the office of councilman who has filed
his sworn application in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance shall have
his name printed on the official ballots. Any such person may cause his name to be
withdrawn at any time before the official ballots are actually printed, by filing
in writing with the City Clerk a request to that effect over his own signature, duly
attested to by a Notary Public. No name so withdrawn shall be printed oft the ballots.
Not later than twenty (20) days before the date of this election the City Clerk shall
have the official ballots printed.
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SECTION 11: Each qualified voter who desires to cast an absentee vote and
® who expects to be absent on the day of the city general election shall be entitled
to an official ballot and the right to cam- such ballot in accordance with the pro-
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visions of Article 2956, Vernon's Texas Statutes.
SECTION 12:. The Chief of Police shall be directed to post a properly executed
copy of the election proclamation and notice at each polling place within the city.
Said notice shall be posted not less than thirty (30) days before the date of said
election. The mayor is hereby directed to give further notice of said election by
publishing a copy of the election proclamation and notice in a newspaper of general
circulation within said city, said publication to be made not later than thirty (30)
full days prior to the date set for said election.
INTRCDUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of a majority of the mem-
bers of the City Council of the City of Baytown, this 2nd day of February, 1950.
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ATTEST:
Edna Oliver., City Clerk
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